Scientists fired from Winnipeg lab still under investigation, Public Safety Minister says


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Open this photo in gallery: Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc acknowledged the two scientists posed a national-security threat because they had access to highly secret information from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, information they obtained to pass on to China.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the RCMP are continuing to investigate the activities of two scientists who were fired from Canada’s high-security National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg for covertly working with China’s military. Mr. LeBlanc said he could not provide further information on the state of the national-security investigation in testimony Monday night before the...